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Let’s Take This Open Floor Plan to the Next Level

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Re: Let’s Take This Open Floor Plan to the Next Level

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Open floor plan mimicry is a physical equivalent to those management bibles read, or at least propped on the desks, by management.

Take successful company, ignore the root causes and context ov their success, and mimic those things they did and used during their successful run because transplanting those wholesale without much thought or understanding should definitely result in our own success, or, in the least, we did something different to try to succeed. And if we failed, well, we just didn't try hard enough. Obviously there wasn't enough buyin.

It could be time to overhaul the team with new members who don't have the baggage of how it was before and start anew.

Re: Let’s Take This Open Floor Plan to the Next Level

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post #6

I could see the idea of randomly projecting employee desktops to a large, central screen gaining traction in management circles.

What if we collage ALL employee desktops up on several projectors so we can see them all at once. Then throughout the day a (or a few) main projector brings up random / important ones for easier viewing.

Kind of like a sports bar, but for spying on people's desktops.

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